Miscellaneous

75 entries in Thimble / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
C. O. Williams Improved Thimble Holder
1903 Later Magic 512
Jean Hugard Technical Terms Explains thimble terms: thumb-palm, finger-palm, second finger-palm, back-palm, palm, finger-clip, steal, holder, acquitment
 		1936 Thimble Magic 3
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm to Thumb-Palm Using Second Finger Hand-to-hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 15
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm in Right Hand Hand-to-hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Thumb-Palm to Back of Wrist Hand-to-hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Right Little Finger Hand to hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 16
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From the Thumb Hand to hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 17
Jean Hugard Acquitments - Thumb-Palm to Thumb-Palm Using Left Thumb Hand to hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 17
Jean Hugard Acquitments - From Little Finger to Finger-Palm Hand to hand transfer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 18
Jean Hugard Acquitments - For Two Thimbles At Once Transferring two thimbles from hand to hand
 		1936 Thimble Magic 18
Jean Hugard Vest Acquitment - Vest Vanish From Little Finger
1936 Thimble Magic 19
Jean Hugard Vest Acquitment - Vest Vanish Using the Thumb
1936 Thimble Magic 19
Jean Hugard P L O P Way to make a "popping" sound (like a cork from a wine bottle) when removing thimble from finger
 		1936 Thimble Magic 26
Jean Hugard Amputation Apparently remove thumb, with thimble as extra convincer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 27
Jean Hugard The Elastic Finger Stretch forefinger with thimble as convincer
 		1936 Thimble Magic 27
Jean Hugard 3 - Apparatus Tricks Four thimbles vanish from performer's hand, appear at a model hand a distance away
 		1936 Thimble Magic 39
Jean Hugard 4 - Liaison Trick Transition from thimble routine to billiard ball, with thimble transforming into billiard ball balancing on fingertip
 		1936 Thimble Magic 39
Edward Victor A New and Original Thimble Holder
1937 Magic of the Hands 71
Thimble and Trumpet thimble blown through toy trumpet
 		1937 The Magic Annual for 1937 31
Laurie Ireland Thimble Holder on the Trouser Pocket
1938 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1938) 11
Thimbles - Sleeving about using sleeving in a thimble routine
 		1939 The Magic Annual for 1938 and 1939 109
Laurie Ireland Manipulative Dollar thimble for little finger glued to coin
 		1940 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940) 16
Eddie Joseph The Thimbles & Dice three thimbles of different colors, small die put under one and jumps around in a monte routine
 		1941 How Gamblers Win 21
Jack Yeager Spirit Tears water produced from thimble
 		1949 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1949) 28
Frank Csuri Frank Csuri Tips thimble or ball holder
 		Sep. 1949 Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 11 & 12) 10
Dr. William Weyeneth Ein unfehlbarer Fingerhuthalter design for thimble holder
 		1949 Hokus Pokus (Vol. 10 No. 1) 4
Eddie Joseph Thimble and Coin coin and thimble transposition
 		1952 Tricks for Informal Occasions 28
Lewis Ganson Thimble Manipulation on thimble manipulation
  • 1. They are too Small to be Seen from a Stage
  • 2. Thimbles are not usually Associated with a Male
  • 3. There is too much Repetition in the Routines usually seen
Also published here 1952 Routined Manipulation — Part Two 21
Wilfred Bader Alternative Presentations of thimble routine
  • Concert or Cabaret
  • Children
 		1952 Routined Manipulation — Part Two 34
Wilfred Bader Levitation thimble floats, thread
Also published here 1952 Routined Manipulation — Part Two 35
Jardine Ellis Jardine Ellis Wineglass Production with vanishing thimble
 		1953 Classic Secrets of Magic 40
Harold Blump The Back of Blumps Hand joke thimble trick
 		1954 The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 307 Spoof Issue) 2
John Murray Thimble Snake mini snake rises from thimble with miniature selection, inspired by an idea with static electricity by C. B. Yohe
Inspired by 1954 The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 309) 34
Geoffrey Buckingham, Ethel Buckingham A New and Novel Thimble Routine routine, including the "Buckingham" multiple silk penetration
 		1957 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1957) 27
Dr. Stanley Jaks Dr. Jaks Fingerhutmysterium six thimbles covering six objects, performer knows which thimble was lifted
Also published here 1961 Dr. Stanley-Jaks und seine Geheimnisse 160
Magische Tips tips on
  • Yoghurt-Becher (on using yoghurt cups instead of glasses(
  • Glasperlenspiel (pearls in glass chaos & order)
  • removing thumb, with thimble
 		1961 Hokus Pokus (Vol. 22 No. 4) 93
Wilf. Huggins Why Not? shell game with three thimbles
 		1970 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70) 64
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Thimble Palm No. 168, three notes without details
 		1972 Jacob Daley's Notebooks 42
Patrick Page Thimble Holders
1976 The Big Book of Magic 153
Bill Tarr Thimbles intro
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 157
Thimble Gimmicks
  • Giant Thimbles
  • Holders
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 159
Mike Caveney Thimble Holders
1981 Magicomedy 118
Mike Caveney Temporary Parking Zone
1981 Magicomedy 119
Fingerhuttricks intro
 		Oct. 1982 Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3) 87
Hen Fetsch Die Fingerhutspitze secret inner nesting thimble for
  • threading a button
  • thread restoration
  • cigarette vanish in thimble
 		Oct. 1982 Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3) 87
Hen Fetsch Eine kleine Durchdringungsroutine bottom smaller coin penetrates to top under thimble
 		Oct. 1982 Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 3) 88
Fingerhüte five impromptu magic items and gags with thimbles
 		Dec. 1986 Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3&4) 121
Karrell Fox "Foxy" Thimble Holders
1991 Goodies 149
T. Page Wright Chapter 2 - Thimble Magic intro
 		1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 50
Lewis Ganson Fingerhut-Manipulation on thimble manipulation
Also published here June 1993 Intermagic (Vol. 18 No. 1) 6
Wilfred Bader Das Fingerhut-Schweben thimble floats, thread
Also published here June 1993 Intermagic (Vol. 18 No. 1) 20
Jörg Willich Dumm Gelaufen bandage travels from finger to finger and vanishes
 		1996 7 Close-Up 10
Steve Beam Introduction
1997 Digital Effects 13
Steve Beam The Care & Feeding of Thimbles
1997 Digital Effects 19
Steve Beam A Word about Words "One Man's War With Presentation"
on presentation and presenting thimble magic
 		1997 Digital Effects 20
Warren Wiersbe First Rule of Thimble Manipulation
Also published here
  • Tantalizing Thimbles, 1948
 1997 Digital Effects 29
The Vacuum plop sound effect
 		1997 Digital Effects 34
Steve Beam Thimbles - It's an Attitude Thing on thimble magic
 		1997 Digital Effects 35
On Thimble Climaxes jumbo thimble, metal jumbo thimble for cups & balls transition
 		1997 Digital Effects 98
Steve Beam Gimmicks on thimble gimmicks
 		1997 Digital Effects 141
Joe Mogar Hanging Around combining magnets and thimble magic
 		1997 Digital Effects 146
Joe Mogar Thimbles Lite thimble glows on command
 		1997 Digital Effects 147
Joe Mogar Holding Your Own holders and body loads
  • Holder #1
  • Holder #2
  • Holder #3
 		1997 Digital Effects 148
Joe Mogar Shell Shocked thimble shell, eight-thimble production
 		1997 Digital Effects 150
Steve Beam Fingered gag, rubber finger production from thimble
 		1997 Digital Effects 166
Steve Beam Sound Effect plop sound with thimble
 		1997 Digital Effects 175
Steve Beam Feedback sound effect ideas for thimbles
 		1997 Digital Effects 182
Steve Beam Sleeving
1997 Digital Effects 187
Joe Mogar Sleeving Thimbles - A Primer
  • Sleeving From The First Finger
  • Sleeving From The Second Finger
  • Multiple Vanish from the Second Finger
  • Producing from the Sleeve
 		1997 Digital Effects 188
Steve Beam The Complete History of Thimble Magic "(Revised, and the revised again.)"
 		1997 Digital Effects 207
Steve Beam Thimble Magic - Suggested Reading
  • Books on Thimble Magic
  • Thimble Magic Within Books
 		1997 Digital Effects 217
John Ramsay, Edward Victor Popping Sound with Thimble
2002 The Book of Secrets 354
Bob Ostin The Thimble Box thimble vanishes and appears in wooden box
 		2005 Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions 116
Billy McComb, Patrick Page Billy's Thimble while doing a thimble routine, an extra finger appears
Inspired by 2011 Magic Page by Page 291
Dr. Stanley Jaks Thimbleometry six thimbles covering six objects, performer knows which thimble was lifted
Also published here 2014 The Incredible Dr. Jaks 234